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Please note the news items that were published today on the DCMI Web site. _____ Meeting Announcements DC-2005 Program updated 2005-07-25, The organising committee for <http://dc2005.uc3m.es/> DC-2005, to take place 12-15 September 2005 at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganés Campus, has published an updated agenda for the conference and workshop. Go to the <http://dc2005.uc3m.es/r/registrationstep1.asp> registration page to book your place for this event! _____ General Announcements New Zealand joins DCMI Affiliate Program 2005-07-25, As announced last month, New Zealand has now joined the <http://dublincore.org/about/affiliates/> DCMI Affiliate Program. The Affiliate program now spans across the globe, with Affiliates in Finland, the UK, Singapore and New Zealand, while DCMI is hosted by OCLC in the United States. _____ Document Announcements Public comment for revisions of four Recommendations 2005-07-25, At their next meeting, in Madrid on 9-10 September 2005, the DCMI Usage Board will review the revised versions of four existing DCMI recommendations: <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-dcsv/> Dublin Core Structured Values, <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-box/> the DCMI Box Encoding Scheme, <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-period/> the DCMI Period Encoding Scheme, and <http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-point/> the DCMI Point Encoding Scheme. Public comment for these documents is open until 22 August 2005. Comments should be sent to the DC-General mailing list with the title of the document in the subject. <http://dublincore.org/news/documents.shtml#pubcomjul05> More information.... _____ Meeting Announcements DCMI Usage Board to meet in Madrid, 9-10 September 2005 2005-07-25, The DCMI Usage Board will meet in Madrid on 9-10 September 2005, prior to the DC-2005 conference. For more information, please contact the Chair, <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tom Baker. _____ General Announcements Japanese Translation of DCMI Web site 2005-07-25, <http://www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/school/> The School of Library and Information Science of the University of Tsukuba in Japan is offering and maintaining a translation of the DCMI Web site in Japanese. A link to the <http://dublincore.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/~moro/> Japanese site can be found in the lower right hand corner of the <http://dublincore.org/> DCMI home page.